Looking at art the way we look at nature

This article begins by paying attention to the interpretation of Wittgenstein’s remarks about Shakespeare and to the multiple references to nature found there. A key point to understand it can be found in the perspective offered by some aesthetic contemporary debates on the relationships between aesthetics and morality. I advocate here that Wittgenstein,. in line with the moderate autonomism positions, proposes us to look at art the way we look at nature to find real beauty, i. e. a certain naturalness in our contemplation of art. To do this, I lean on D. E. Cooper’s notion of «integrated human good», I propose a complementary inversion of the aesthetic arguments in favour of a non-instrumental relationship with nature, and I stress, with I. Ground, that our humanity and a basic sense of aesthetic are joint constituents.